Over the treetops of Emory University’s Atlanta campus, the green steeple of Glenn Memorial Church is a constant reminder of Emory’s roots in the United Methodist Church (UMC). As the national body of the Christian denomination splits over the issue of LGBTQ inclusion, some former members of Glenn’s congregation are calling on the University to [...]
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There will never be anything quite like sitting in the back of my mom’s car at six years old, listening to the Chicks as I looked out the window at the flat Texas landscape on our family road trips. To this day, when I hear the opening lines of “Wide Open Spaces,” I can’t help [...]
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Two days before Oxford College’s commencement ceremony, Dean Douglas Hicks sat in his office on the fourth floor of Seney Hall. From his prime view of the quad below, he overlooked the stage where he would send off second-year students to the Atlanta campus for the sixth year in a row. This year, he joined [...]
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“Thank you, Atlanta,” Dominic Fike said, pretending to walk off stage after opening his set with his hit song “Come Here.” From Fike’s April Fool’s joke to the many hats Bryce Vine wore during his set to Taylor Bennett’s impressive stage presence, Student Programming Council's (SPC) Dooley's Palooza on April 1 more than made up [...]
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FiveThirtyEight founder and data journalist Nate Silver predicted a grim outlook for Democrats in the upcoming U.S. Senate elections and addressed the possible effects the war in Ukraine could have on the midterms at a Feb. 24 event at Emory University. Founded in 2008, FiveThirtyEight is a website and blog which emphasizes statistical analysis in [...]
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